Cross in Tensions. Philip Ruge-Jones
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Название: Cross in Tensions

Автор: Philip Ruge-Jones

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Религия: прочее

Серия: Princeton Theological Monograph Series

isbn: 9781630878108

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СКАЧАТЬ rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_c9865d30-324e-5e15-aeae-ad6f96fe92a8">117 With this observation, he demands that the word of the cross not be threatened from another direction. For the theology of the cross without the word is not the only way that theologians have sought to escape the historicity of faith. Modern orthodox theology has attempted to construct a theology of the cross upon the assumption of some kind of “two-realm pattern of viewing the world.”118 Contemporary Lutheranism demonstrates the danger

      If existentialism abandoned the historicity of the crucifixion of Jesus, orthodoxy stands in danger of turning from the historic reality of contemporary crosses suffered by humanity. In that paradigm, the only way that the cross is treated as contemporary is within the confines of sacred space, particularly in the preaching of the word within the context of worship. The intrinsic relationship between Christ’s cross and our crosses is lost rendering the word impotent. In such a position:

      The cost of such a move is tremendous. The trinitarian God in the full sense has been denied. Christology so lords it over the entire godhead that not only false theologies of creation are abandoned, but also the true reality of God as Creator. When this occurs:

      Prenter turns to Luther’s work on the Magnificat to challenge orthodoxy’s restriction of God’s historical activity and lordship. In this commentary Luther holds history and creation together with the cross of Christ. When Luther addresses issues of poverty, he is speaking not of some spiritual poverty recognized in a sacred sphere, he speaks of actual, physical hunger and thirst as the medium of God’s creative activity. He asks the reader:

      Again, Prenter returns to the theme of vicarious suffering. Christ suffers on our behalf the cross that is laid upon sinners.

      He finally sums up the opportunity that Luther’s theology of the cross offers to contemporary theology:

      In this short article, Prenter has brought us further along in our task than the last three authors combined. His constructive critique of the wedge driven between the cross of the incarnate word Jesus and the other crosses in creation holds in appropriate tension our concern to not take the incarnate and crucified word out of our world. He offers us clarity in our critique of Forde and Ebeling who have taken Jesus’ cross out of the realm of history. He reminds us that it is not an accident that people who suffer brutal abuses of power are turning to look again, not only with Luther but also with the original apostolic witnesses to Jesus, to the crucified Christ.

      Critical Summary

      We have explored three models of interpreting Luther’s theology of the cross. In relationship to the concern that the theology of the cross be situated within the political and social history of its day, we appraise the three models differently. The third model offers some clues for bringing together theology and social reality. It does this by providing a way to talk about the theology of the cross in terms of the total context in which we live. Especially Prenter recognizes the God-given possibility and necessity of understanding Christ’s cross always in conjunction with contemporary crosses. In the crosses of creation points of historical concreteness are provided in which Christ and context are related. One also could argue that Peura’s emphasis on the real, ontological presence of God in the believer also provides a foothold for God’s active presence in history.

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